A White Guy posted:

Going along with stupid high school sports things: I was a lacrosse goalie, in outdoor lacrosse. The only required pads were the cup, the chest protector, the helmet, and the neck guard + the gloves. Everything else was exposed to flying rubber balls that regularly get hurled at 100+ mph speeds. By the end of the season, I had a bruised peripheral nerve in my lower left leg which meant that cold days were flat out unbearable. Bruised nerves suuuuuuck.

Of course, end of the season, I get called up to varsity because I had improved tremendously. Coach puts me in goal towards the end of a stomping, and one of the shots hits me right in that nerve. Apparently I went down like a sack of potatoes. I came to when I got some ammonia salts straight to the face.